May 23, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



701 



New Crop of Ferns - Decoration Day Stock 



FANCY FERNS, $1.25 PER 1000. DAGGER FERNS, $1.00 PER 1000. 



Edward A, Beaven - - - Evergreen, Ala. 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Business stiffened up In 

 BOSTON the first part of last week 



and gave some hope of 

 better conditions for the balance of the 

 season, but it proved unstable and ac- 

 tivity sagged oft again and the street 

 fakir again resumed his throne and 

 his discards again took up their move- 

 ment direct to the dump. Roses are 

 abundant and there is an awkward 

 congestion on the better grades. Car- 

 nations are also plentiful and are sell- 

 ing under stress at figures entirely in- 

 adequate and no good purpose is 

 served thereby. Daffodils are about 

 finished but there are some excellent 

 late tulips in market. Sweet peas are 

 very fine. Pond lilies are showing up 

 well but the price is out of all propor- 

 tion, $4.00 per hundred beln.g about 

 the high limit. Decoration Day prices 

 will be lower than heretofore but the 

 aggregate sales will probably exceed 

 the record. 



Trade was still on the 

 BUFFALO quiet side up lo last Sat- 

 urday, with stock plenti- 

 ful on all lines, especially on roses of 

 poor quality. Selected quality roses 

 sold well; lily of the valley and sweet 

 peas moved more freely. Outdoor li- 

 lacs are in. also jonquils and poeticus 

 narcissus but not in quantity. This 

 week the market opened with a rush 

 and stock moved at a clip reminiscent 

 of the olden days. Shipping trade was 

 lively and the market was once more 

 relieved of its congestion. The outlook 

 for Memorial Day is bright except as 

 to carnations. Bride and Kaiserin 

 roses are in better demand than of late. 



Retail trade is rather 

 CHICAGO quiet. Almost continual 



rain has reduced the 

 number of buyers. Outdoor flowers 

 are selling more readily than any oth- 

 ers though roses are moving fairly 

 well. Carnations are not bringing so 

 good a price as a week ago and white 

 ones are especially movin.g slowly. 

 Red peonies are gone but good pink 

 and white are seen in abundance. 

 Jasmines are not arriving from the 

 South in very good condition, conse- 

 quently sales are dropping off and the 

 season which in Chicago lasts only 

 two or three weeks is practically over. 

 Sweet peas are good and ordinary va- 

 rieties are sellin.g readily at normal 

 wholesale rates, while Butterfly is very 

 fine and brings three dollars per hun- 

 dred. Beauties are unusually good, 

 and so are Brides, Bridesmaids and 

 Kaiserin. An extraordinarily fine 

 display of cattleyas are to be seen at 

 McKellar's wholesale and at Mangel's 

 retail store this week. 



The past week 

 INDIANAPOLIS has been one of 

 the most satis- 

 factory this season. Stock of all 



kinds continues good, especially long 

 stemmed Beauties, which are in good 

 demand. Lily of the valley is selling 

 better than for a long time. Sweet 

 peas are still in heavy demand. 

 Peonies and iris sell reasonably well. 

 Bedding business is in full sway now. 

 All of the local florists are getting a 

 share. With the advent of warm 

 weather there is a good demand for 

 laurels and box trees. Prospects for 

 a good trade and big supply of stock 

 tor Memorial Day are bright. From 

 present indications there will be con- 

 siderable decorating for June wed- 

 dings. 



Trade is stagnant, and 

 NEW YORK a plentiful supply of 

 everything congests 

 the market on all sides. Lilacs are 

 already giving way to peonies and 

 special outdoor spring stock, such as 

 bulb flowers, gardenias, etc., are about 

 finished. Among the conspicuous 

 things during the past week have been 

 the Spanish irises, which have been 

 coming to this market in heavy ship- 

 ments from southern sources and have 

 been welcomed by the store trade be- 

 cause of their exquisitely brilliant col- 

 ors. The price has been about fifty 

 cents a hundred. 



For the week 

 PHILADELPHIA ending May 18th 



prices remained 

 about normal, but most of the large 

 influx of all kinds of stock was pretty 

 well cleaned up. Considering previous 

 conditions this may be put down as 

 better than expected. Beauties are 

 still in heavy supply and of fine qual- 

 ity. Liberty, Bride and Bridesmaid 

 are showing the effects of the 

 weather. Richmond, Kaiserin and Kil- 

 larney are in fine form. Some varieties 

 of carnations are running down, 

 but many are holding their own splen- 

 didly. "School day" on the ISth helped 

 considerably on the whites. Cattleyas 

 are good stock and moving nicely. 

 The improvement in* the lily of the 

 valley situation keeps up. Southern 

 gardenias have commenced. The 

 warm weather hurts the sweet pea 

 crop a little but the demand keeps u|i 

 surpiisingly well. Lilies are not so 

 plentiful— demand fair. The peony 

 crop commenced arriving on the 1.5th. 

 Officinalis is now plentiful and goes 

 well. By the 2.5th Festiva Maxima and 

 other chinensis will be in. and promise 

 to be unusually choice. The southern 

 tut is already coming in sparingly. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Visitors this week: James T. Gor- 

 man, of the Lord & Burnham Co.; Ed- 

 win A. Seidewitz. Baltimore. 



Fred Rohlan, of Dreer's, has been 

 laid up with a severe attack of mus- 

 cular rheumatism for several weeks. 



Burnet Landreth and F. W. Brug- 

 gerhof have started on a trip to Cali- 

 fornia, to occupy about seven weeks. 



May 20th was "band day" for the 

 return from a southern business trip 

 01 Tausendschon — known to fame also 

 under his proper title of "Captain" 

 Lynch of the Dingee & Conard Co. 



"Gardenia Daffodils" are a novelty 

 at Niessen's. This is the old-fashioned 

 double white narcissus, but as we have 

 not seen it in a flower store for ten 

 years or more "old-fashioned" novelty 

 may be a permissible phrase. 



An interesting group of wild flowers 

 is a feature of tlie Battles' display this 

 week. Among those noted were 

 Cynthia, Viola pedata, Viola blanda, 

 Houstonia coerulea. This may not be 

 business but it informs and pleases the 

 pa.ssing crowd. 



It v,'as rumored that the H. F. 

 Michell Co. intended to move to 5th 

 and Market streets this season, but in 

 a talk with H. F. Michell he informs 

 us that the present intention is to 

 remain at the old stand for two years 

 and rent the new location in the mean- 

 time to other tenants. 



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